Detroit removed Delmon Young from the 25-man roster and placed him on the restricted list following his arrest Thursday night and now Andy Soltis of the New York Postreports that MLB “has decided to suspend” Young.

Young’s arrest came exactly six years to the day after he was suspended for throwing his bat an umpire while playing at Triple-A for the Rays as a prospect.

No word yet on the length of the suspension, but according to the newspaper an official ruling could come as soon as today. Young, who’s making $6.75 million this season, was released on $5,000 bail and the Tigers have said he’ll undergo alcohol and anger counseling.

Delmon Young’s problem is that he thinks of himself as better than other people – one of the most disgusting character flaws a human being can have. Unfortunately “anger management” and alcohol counseling are probably just bandaids to a problem that runs much deeper.

Unqualified? He threw a bat at an umpire and now he’s been arrested for getting into a fight and yelling slurs at a homeless man….you’re right, I’m totally unqualified to make comments about him.

protius - Apr 30, 2012 at 6:35 PM

Dude, you are unqualified to make a diagnosis that only a professional psychotherapist or a board certified psychiatrist can make, i.e., that an individual has a superiority complex, i.e., he thinks he’s better than other people.

Your belief that a superiority complex is “one of the most disgusting character flaws a human being can have” is a conclusion that any layperson can embrace. However, I believe that your idea regarding ““anger management” and alcohol counseling are probably just bandaids to a problem that runs much deeper” lay outside the scope of amateur psychoanalysis.

brokea$$lovesmesomeme - Apr 30, 2012 at 7:26 PM

Hell yeah protius, don’t take $hit from him

The Baseball Idiot - Apr 30, 2012 at 6:17 PM

It doesn’t mean he thinks he’s better than anyone.

I lot of people experience anger due to an inferiority complex, that somehow they aren’t good enough. So they strike out at others (people in authority, people below them on the ‘my life sucks’ scale, those not able to defense themselves) in order to make themselves feel superior, precisely because they don’t.

You know we have seen much worse and it went unpunished, delmon young is not a superstar like some of the other players who have gotten away with similar actions. Kind of hypocritical..I.e.cabrera harrassing an overweight 16 year while drunk here in metro detroit, also threatening an entire resturant full of patrons then driving around with a bottle of scotch. Double standards I guess

If you can’t have any compassion at least use common sense. These men are all humans and make mistakes. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. What mistakes do you have in your closet. We don’t know about them because you’re not a public figure, but there are mistakes aren’t there? Only someone perfect can judge someone else, so put yourselves in their place and show a little human compassion and wish them luck straightening out their problems!

I can appreciate this type of sentiment, and I agree to an extent – but on the flip-side; which of us is in the public eye like Delmon Young is? Whether or not he wants to accept it, kids look up to guys like him and he is held to a higher standard. I know people make mistakes, but when somebody who should know definitely know better given his history (not to mention the fact that he’s an adult) keeps messing up in the same ways, he deserves the criticism he gets.